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Christian behaviour, or, The fruits of true Christianity showing the ground from whence they…Christian behaviour, or, The fruits of true Christianity shewing the ground from whence they…
Christian behaviour, or, The fruits of true Christianity showing the ground from whence they flow in their godlike order in the duty of relations, as husbands, wives, parents, children, masters, servants &c. : with a word of direction to all backsliders / by John Bunyan.Christian behaviour, or, The fruits of true Christianity shewing the ground from whence they flow in their godlike order in the duty of relations, as husbands, wives, parents, children, masters, servants &c. : with a word of direction to all backsliders / by John Bunyan.
London: printed for F. Smith, 1663
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Christian Behaviour; OR, The Fruits of true Christianity. › Touching the Master of a Family.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Beware that she take no occasion from any unseemly carriage of thine, to proceed in evil; and here thou hast need to double thy diligence, for she lieth in thy bosom, and therefore is capable of espying the least miscarriage in thee.
2. Beware that she take no occasion from any unseemly carriage of thine, to proceed in evil; and here thou hast need to double thy diligence, for she lieth in thy bosome, and therefore is capable of espying the least miscarriage in thee.
3. If she behave her self unseemly and unruly, as she is subject to do, being Christless & Graceless, then labour thou to overcome her Evil with thy Goodness, her Frowardness with thy Patience and Meekness: it is a shame for thee who hast an other principle, to do as she.
4. Take fit opportunities to convince her; observe her disposition, and when she is most likely to bear, then speak to her very heart.
5. When thou speakest, speak to purpose; 'tis no matter for many words, provided they be pertinent. Job in a few words answers his Wife, and takes her off from her foolish talking; Thou speakest, saith he, like one of the foolish women; shall we receive good at the hands of God, and shall we not receive evil?